🗞 A bit of talk about it

October 16, 2022

G'day sports fans,

Monday Motivation: "Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown." - Ross Perot.

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🏃🏼 The Running Man, Nedd Brockmann, fresh from raising over a million dollars for homeless charities, is due into Bondi at around 5pm today. This guy has run across Australia in 47 days. 3891km done. 59km go.

🇦🇺 Aussie Sport

🏏 Pat Cummins believes Australia's next 50-over captain may need to lead by committee, insisting the hectic forthcoming schedule will prohibit multi-format players like himself from featuring in every series.

The Test skipper remained coy about the prospect of adding the ODI job to his swelling list of commitments when asked on Sunday ahead of Australia’s T20 World Cup title defence.

"There's been a bit more talk about it. Nothing concrete, or no decisions made yet," Cummins said of the post vacated by Aaron Finch last month. "But it's something I'd be open to."

🥇 Gold Coast ironman Ali Day battled through injury to win his eighth Coolangatta Gold, with a time of 03:57:49 while ironwoman Carla Papac finished in 04:27:00 for her maiden win of the event.

Key points:

  • Ali Day and Carla Papac have been crowned the champions of this year's Coolangatta Gold

  • Ironwoman Lana Rogers fought off demons to come third after failing to finish last year's event

  • 800 athletes from across the country competed in events over two days on the Southern Gold Coast

Elite athletes completed the 41.8km course, which involves a 23km surf-ski, 1km run, 3.5km swim, 6.1km board, and 8.2km run on the southern Gold Coast on Sunday.

🏏 Sheffield Shield: Early Bird blitz puts Tigers on top in Adelaide

Jackson Bird and Peter Siddle took four wickets apiece to give Tasmania the upper hand against South Australia after an intriguing day one.

Match report: Stumps: Tasmania trail South Australia by 210 runs with 9 wickets remaining

🏍 Spain's Álex Rins took victory in the first Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix since 2019, with local favourite Jack Miller forced to retire.

On Saturday the Aussie star was given his own corner at the famous track, a prestigious honour for the 27-year-old,

But on Sunday it all went pear-shaped as the Aussie was taken out of the race on only the ninth lap of the race, at his own corner.

🍺 Surfing legend Mick Fanning reportedly netted a $4 million windfall from his investment, when the craft brewing company BALTER was snapped up by beverage goliath Carlton United Breweries in 2019.

His $20m post-sports-career earnings includes a substantial stake in fitness chain FS8.

⚽️ Steve Corica's Sydney FC secured their first A-League win of the season with a come-from-behind 1-3 victory over Western United.

🥇 Australian Paralympic great Madison de Rozario has pipped a superstar-studded field to take the top gong at the Women’s Health Women In Sport Awards 2022.

The middle and long-distance wheelchair racer was crowned the Women’s Health Athlete of the year.

⛹🏻‍♀️ The Silver Ferns established a 2-0 Constellation Cup lead with a 52-48 win over the Diamonds in Tauranga ahead of the series moving to Australia.

🇦🇺 Collingwood defeats injury-hit Fremantle to chalk up a fourth win in a row, while Western Bulldogs and GWS enjoyed victories.

🐴 Racing

💰 The Everest is only going to get bigger and better with speculation the world's richest turf race could be worth as much as $20m next year.

Racing NSW chief executive Peter V'landys has vowed to continue growing The Everest race meeting after it smashed betting turnover and course attendance records at Royal Randwick last Saturday.

A modern-day Randwick record crowd of 46,221 watched unbeaten Giga Kick win The Everest in blazing Sydney spring sunshine, smashing the previous attendance benchmark of 43,833 who watched Winx race into retirement with her 33rd consecutive win in the 2019 Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

🙋🏻‍♂️ Four-time Cox Plate-winning jockey Hugh Bowman is set to be reunited with Duais in the $8m Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m).

🐴 Champion jockey James McDonald says superstar Anamoe has "another gear to give", in an ominous warning ahead of Saturday's $5m Group 1 W.S Cox Plate (2040m).

With the Might And Power, Anamoe's sixth Group 1 success and third straight, the stallion equalled the global record number of top-class wins for a Godolphin horse.

🐴 Baaeed's career and unbeaten run ended with defeat in the Champion Stakes as Bay Bridge triumphed at Ascot.

The four-year-old, Europe's top-rated horse, was denied a 11th successive win in his final race on British Champions Day.

"He's a very special horse. I suppose it's sad that he hasn't finished his career unbeaten because we've come so far."

🌍 World Sport

⚽️ Liverpool put their recent Premier League struggles behind them to end Manchester City's unbeaten run in an enthralling and hot-tempered encounter at Anfield, which saw Jurgen Klopp sent off.

City, fuelled by the goals of Erling Haaland, were in prime condition but Liverpool finally found the form which has deserted them for much of the season to overcome the reigning champions.

⚽️ Clinical Real Madrid beat Barcelona 3-1 in the 250th El Clasico to go top of La Liga and inflict their rivals' first league defeat of the season.

⚽️ Premier League leaders Arsenal held on for a 1-0 win at Leeds in a dramatic finish after the match had been delayed by about 40 minutes because of a power outage.

⚽️ Mason Mount scored his first two club goals of the season as Chelsea survived a first-half onslaught against Aston Villa to continue Graham Potter's unbeaten start as manager (2-0)

⚽️ Erik ten Hag defended his decision to substitute Cristiano Ronaldo despite Manchester United needing a goal in Sunday's draw against Newcastle by insisting he wants to keep the striker fresh (0-0).

🏏 Huge outsiders Namibia defeated Sri Lanka in Sunday's first game of the men's T20 World Cup.

In fact, the nation in Africa's south didn't just beat Sri Lanka at Geelong's Kardinia Park. It thrashed the 2022 Asia Cup champions by 55 runs.

🥊 icymi: Deontay Wilder knocked out Robert Helenius in the first round Saturday night, powerfully punching his way back into the win column after consecutive losses to Tyson Fury.

Wilder 43-2-1 (42 KOs) won emphatically in his first fight since getting stopped twice by Fury.

🥊 American Devin Haney remains the undisputed lightweight boxing champion after outclassing former titleholder George Kambosos Jr. yet again in Melbourne.

The unbeaten American has won 29 fights, 15 of them by knockout, and has unified the WBA, IBF, WBO, and The Ring lightweight belts.

"I should definitely be in the pound-for-pound rankings," Haney said post-fight.

🏉 Ireland the Roosters' Luke Keary put 48 points on debutants Jamaica in the RL World Cup.

Man of the match Luke Keary: "It was awesome just to put the jersey on. It's been a special night, the boys performed well that was a little bit of rust but it was exciting just to share the field with Jamaica. Their first game in the tournament. They'll have a big future.

"Hopefully we can get somewhere. It's a step up against Lebanon next week. We're a close group, we're going to give it our best this tournament.

🏀 Brooklyn Nets guards Seth Curry (left ankle) and Joe Harris (left foot) will not be ready for the regular-season opener against the New Orleans Pelicans on Wednesday as they continue their respective rehab plans, the team announced Sunday.

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🏈 07:05 - NFL - Seattle Seahawks v Arizona Cardinals (7mate)

🏈 07:25 - NFL - Kansas City Chiefs v Buffalo Bills (ESPN)

⚾️ 10:07 - American League Divisional Series - Cleveland Guardians v New York Yankees (ESPN 2)

🏈 11:20 - NFL - Philadelphia Eagles v Dallas Cowboys (ESPN)

🏏 15:00 - Men's T20 World Cup Round 1 - West Indies v Scotland (Fox Sports)

🏏 15:00 - Men's T20 World Cup Warm-Up - Australia v India (Fox Cricket)

🏏 19:00 - Men's T20 World Cup Round 1 - Zimbabwe v Ireland (Fox Cricket)

🏏 19:00 - Men's T20 World Cup Warm-Up - England v Pakistan (Fox Sports)

🏀 19:30 - NBL - Illawarra Hawks v New Zealand Breakers (ESPN)

🏏 23:30 - CSA T20 Challenge Group - Dolphins v Titans (Fox Sports)

TUESDAY

🏏 03:00 - CSA T20 Challenge Group - North West Dragons v Lions (Fox Sports)

🏉 05:30 - RL World Cup - France v Greece (Fox League)

🏆 05:30 - Awards Ceremony - Ballon d'Or (SBS)

⚽️ 06:00 - Spanish La Liga - Villarreal v Osasuna (Optus Sport 2)

⚾️ 10:07 - American League Divisional Series - New York Yankees v Cleveland Guardians (ESPN 2)

🏈 11:15 - NFL - Los Angeles Chargers v Denver Broncos (ESPN)

🏏 15:00 - Men's T20 World Cup Round 1 - Namibia v Netherlands (Fox Cricket)

🏏 19:00 - Men's T20 World Cup Round 1 - Sri Lanka v United Arab Emirates (Fox Cricket)

🏏 23:30 - CSA T20 Challenge Group - Warriors Cricket v Knights (Fox Sports)